Slack / Private Message Drop — page 647

[Robert Garry] My experience says that that will come back and bite them in the ass. We'll see. [2021-03-27 20:54:22] [Eddie Holmes] She's totally lost it. [2021-03-27 20:56:01] [Eddie Holmes] I assume that someone has been calling her racist? [2021-03-27 20:58:54] [Eddie Holmes] 'White people countries'. Extraordinary. [2021-03-28 07:28:15] [Robert Garry] Ridley hopes to make bank on the CIVID book he's writing - Metzl, that idiot Rogan and several others as well - the more notorious they are the more books they hope to sell. eDIm, Fillipa and Lipstich has a lot of their professional capital invested in finding that BSL-4 labs and GoF research are deadly. Everyone has a CoI. Of course - Daszak is an easy target for the CoI charge, but others have real CoIs as well- ad hominum attacks are not science. [shared file(s): image.png] [2021-03-28 08:35:56] [Robert Garry] Ok -I'm game to answer this question. "Why is it ok to share videos of horrific animal trade in China - like @Kristian Andersen did with the CNN video-, but "fueling racist rhetoric" to discuss the facts that China has been engaging in so much cutting-edge research that lab leaks are a real possibility? Big difference - instances of lab leaks in the past have been known pathogens. What Alina, Metzl and the DRASTICs and Parisites are alleging has a major difference. The are alleging a conspiracy - perhaps with the Chinese military - that SC2 was being secretely worked on in the lab. This directly feeds into the overtly racist memes of the "China virus" etc. [shared file(s): image.png] [2021-03-28 08:40:28] [Kristian Andersen] It might be worth pointing out that the video was from inside the Huanan market and shows several potential reservoir hosts... It's an actual data point - not unsubstantiated speculation that lends fuel to a racist agenda. [2021-03-28 14:21:12] [Eddie Holmes] Exactly that. It is obvious that a large part of the lab escape doctrine is pure xenophobia. [2021-03-29 06:42:31] [Robert Garry] Get ready - the WHO report has been leaked.... [2021-03-29 06:43:43] [Andrew Rambaut] :popcorn: [2021-03-29 06:47:52] [Kristian Andersen] PDF? [2021-03-29 07:11:10] [Kristian Andersen] Oh, got it from Jim... [shared file(s): origins.pdf]